Delivering drinks with PR2 and TurtleBot at Bosch

Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 19:49

We recently featured
Bosch
and how they
are working on making robots cheaper, more capable, and safer as
part of the PR2 Beta
Program. They now have a new trick up their sleeve: in one week,
they created an website where employees can order drinks and have them
delivered to them automatically. They have PR2 (Alan) and TurtleBot
(BusBot) working together so that PR2 gets the drinks out of the
fridge and TurtleBot brings them to your room.

This multi-robot twist on drink delivery is a great approach for both
making robots cheaper and more capable. More expensive and capable
robots like PR2 can be used for difficult tasks that require
manipulation, while less expensive robots like TurtleBot can take care
of transporting items around.